{"id":195623,"date":"2025-12-21T00:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T00:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/195623\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T00:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T00:09:08","slug":"mayor-of-cheltenham-thanks-racegoers-for-their-generosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/195623\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor of Cheltenham thanks racegoers for their generosity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"date small\">Published on 20th December 2025<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image image--feature image--main\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/5079_533x800.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of the Mayor of Cheltenham, councillor David Willingham\"\/>                <\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">The Mayor of Cheltenham has personally thanked racegoers for their generosity in helping to raise more than \u00a31,000 for charity.<\/p>\n<p>The Mayor of Cheltenham has personally thanked racegoers for their generosity in helping to raise more than \u00a31,000 for charity.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor David Willingham was struck by the good will and spirit of punters attending the Christmas Meet at the town\u2019s racecourse last week (12 \u2013 13 December).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The collection raised \u00a31,025.28 and the funds will help support the mayor\u2019s charities which this year are: Cheltenham Sea Cadets, Men in Sheds and The Rock.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mayor of Cheltenham, Cllr Dr David Willingham, said: \u201cI would really like to thank the racegoers for their generosity of their donations after the Christmas Meeting on the 12th December 2025.\u00a0 Every penny raised will go to helping charities which make a wonderful positive difference to the lives of people in Cheltenham.\u00a0 I would also like to acknowledge and thank the Jockey Club for their support by allowing us to run this collection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone could make a donation online by visiting Cheltenham Borough Council\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheltenham.gov.uk\/info\/72\/mayor\/330\/the_mayors_charities\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> and searching for mayor\u2019s charities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>For media enquiries contact: communications telephone 01242 264154, email <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheltenham.gov.uk\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#b4d7dbd9d9c1daddd7d5c0dddbdac7f4d7dcd1d8c0d1dadcd5d99ad3dbc29ac1df\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on 20th December 2025 The Mayor of Cheltenham has personally thanked racegoers for their generosity in helping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1501,111223,114,111226,75874,111217,111222,111218,111219,111221,72299,109691,111225,111215,242,85,46,265,111220,111214,111216,43,10511,687,21260,111224],"class_list":["post-195623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-benefits","tag-bins","tag-business","tag-business-rates","tag-cheltenham","tag-cheltenham-borough-council","tag-cheltenham-gov","tag-cheltenham-gov-uk","tag-council-housing","tag-council-offices","tag-council-tax","tag-councillor","tag-crematorium","tag-david-willingham","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jobs","tag-leisure-centre","tag-mayor-of-cheltenham","tag-mayors-charities","tag-news","tag-parking","tag-planning","tag-recycling","tag-rubbish-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}